Between Going and Staying

Octavio PazOctavio Paz

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Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can't be touched.Paper, book, pencil, glass,
rest in the shade of their names.Time throbbing in my temples repeats
the same unchanging syllable of blood.The light turns the indifferent wall
into a ghostly theater of reflections.I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself in its blank stare.The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.
Octavio Paz
About the poet

Octavio Paz

1914 - 1998/Male/MexicanA writer, poet, and diplomat, Octavio Paz Lozano wrote poems influenced by Marxism, surrealism, and existentialism, Buddhism and Hinduism. (wikipedia)

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